State Senator Gustavo Rivera on the 2026 Senate One House Budget Resolution

 

“This year, New York’s budget faces unprecedented challenges due to massive cuts in federal support for New Yorkers by the trump administration and Congressional Republicans. Our Senate One-House budget proposal would mitigate the real harm inflicted by the federal government, which includes loss of access to healthcare services and increasing costs and barriers to adequate coverage. Despite these funding gaps, the Senate Majority is making smart investments such as supporting Governor Hochul’s $3.6 billion to expand child care across the state, which will be transformative for so many families in my district."

“This resolution includes funding for hospitals, nursing homes, and community health centers, assisted living programs, hospices, home care and other providers. To address issues of affordability and access the Senate budget has included a number of measures that I have been working to advance, including the Affordable Drug Manufacturing Act, which will allow our State to produce generic prescription drugs, including insulin; the permanent exclusion of School Based Health Centers from managed care to protect funding for children’s healthcare; and a measure to permanently extend the enhanced Medical Indemnity Fund (MIF) rates, and create a MIF ombudsman (S.3364), which will ensure families with children who suffered neurological injuries can continue to access the services they need and resolve problems when they arise."

“The Senate Majority ’s budget proposal also creates a mandate for the Department of Health to explore long-term solutions for the delivery of publicly-subsidized healthcare services, such as my bill, the Home Care Savings and Reinvestment Act, which would restructure the Medicaid Managed Long Term Care program to eliminate private health insurance companies that act as middlemen."

 

“I am proud that our Conference included proposals that will make New York’s highest income earners and corporations pay their fair share. I strongly believe that we must do more in this year’s budget to safeguard safety net programs and public services that have been gutted by the federal government. Our state has an opportunity and an obligation to meet the needs of New York’s working people by making billionaires and mega corporations contribute much more so that our government has the resources to provide services that benefit all of us."